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Examples
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Gentlemen and common men hob-and-nob together, and no distinctions made?
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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But as sitting down to hob-and-nob there would have seemed to mark him too implicitly as the weather-caster's apostle, he declined, and went his way.
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But as sitting down to hob-and-nob there would have seemed to mark him too implicitly as the weather-caster's apostle, he declined, and went his way.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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Could he leave Arden, and the kingdom that he had created for himself, to roam in sandy deserts, and hob-and-nob with
The Lovels of Arden 1875
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Most persons would, naturally, have sought safety in flight, and not stayed to hob-and-nob with this denizen of the jungle; not so, however, thought a lady of the party, who, inspired by her innate courage, or the fear of losing her dinner
Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848
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My poor fellow! every shilling of your money went to them, and but for my peer's privilege I might be hob-and-nob with you now in your dungeon.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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“Well, all I can say is, then, that she ought to hob-and-nob elsewhere.
The Woodlanders 2006
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My poor fellow! every shilling of your money went to them, and but for my peer’s privilege I might be hob-and-nob with you now in your dungeon.
The Virginians 2006
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“He’ll romp with the miller’s children, and gossip with the mother, and hob-and-nob with the father.
No Name 2003
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"Well, all I can say is, then, that she ought to hob-and-nob elsewhere.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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